Worst Cooks in America

Tonight, for the start of season four, we're getting a rematch between series champion Anne Burrell and Bobby Flay. The real question is if one of these team leaders might possibly have one of the worst cooks in America under their wing. We think not. You want one of the worst cooks in America, you should see our mom try to cook. My goodness, we had home cooked food every night for dinner and yet it still never got any better. Have you ever heard of microwaved sundried tomatoes? Yeah, they don't work.

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The basic point of "Worst Cooks in America" is to find which terrible cook ends up with the biggest improvement. So, that isn't to say, that it is necessarily the best cook at the end of the season. If you think about it, that's pretty interesting, we would totally mess up more at the beginning of the season specifically so that we could show greater improvement. But, perhaps, we're more sneaky than other folks. Perhaps not. Have you been watching the show this season? Do you have any thoughts about the way things have happened to this point?

Every year for as long as this show has been on (season five starts tonight), Food Network has gone out and looked for the worst cooks in America. That is, naturally, why they've named the show "Worst Cooks in America." Well, the new season kicks up tonight and it ought to be a truly amusing adventure. Think of this as "MasterChef," but in reverse... sort of. The goal isn't to find the worst, the goal is to improve. We kind of wish that they could work out a way that the worst of the worst could be determined, but there would probably be too much cheating to make that feasible.

Hosts Bobby Flay and Anne Burrell teach the 10 remaining recruits about various flavor combinations; the competitors work with guest Willie Degel in a challenge that involves preparing delicious gelato and tasty burgers.

Hosts Bobby Flay and Anne Burrell teach the 10 remaining recruits about various flavor combinations; the competitors work with guest Willie Degel in a challenge that involves preparing delicious gelato and tasty burgers.

Hosts Bobby Flay and Anne Burrell teach the 10 remaining recruits about various flavor combinations; the competitors work with guest Willie Degel in a challenge that involves preparing delicious gelato and tasty burgers.

Anne Burrell (whose teams won the previous two seasons) is back again this year to challenge Bobby Flay's squad of hapless cooks. Of course, if you ask us, the show ought to actually be trying to find the worst cooks in America and then award its prize to the worst of the worst (or would that make them the best of the worst?). Instead, the show tries to make these horrific cooks better, and gives the most improved a $25,000 prize. Wouldn't it be so much more awesome if it was the cook who simply couldn't get better who got the money? We don't know how you'd test for that sort of thing, but we're pretty convinced that it could--and should--be done.